Clone Wars: Population sizes a final solution.

Asari are stupid.

"Its not cheating hunny I'm just ensuring the genetic viability of their species."

*Sips Ryncol*

*Marches in like a champ*

I like it. A Shepard army!!  Woohoo!!

A step further...say that is exactly what is going to happen...almost.  The Shep cloning is only successfully achievable by genetic alterations that require...errr......mixing up a bunch of genetic material from Krogan, Human, Asari ,etc. We create the super soldiers that wipe out the Kett and all the enemies of the cluster, and after many generations of strife and reorganization, we rise to be a great cluster of happy folk!

5000 years later...uh...poof! There is some time travel paradox and one of our battleships get sucked into a wormhole (or something). This stranded crew rebuild an empire in this new, strange time. Built on military principles, it becomes a great empire.  Sorta...like the Romans....

 Abracadabra...errr...basically,  it turns out that the Kett that the pathfinder is fighting are  our great-great-great x25 grandchildren! Exhalation is their goal, but they have no idea they are exhalting their own ancestors! 

And all of it...all the misery and death and destruction... the endless Starchild-esque cycle...it's all because of Shep's DNA.

I am too tired to think it through...but...ya know...I worked very hard today and overtaxed the bean

No, we don't need clones.  We need to get everyone out of cryo.  Most people are still in there.  We've also still got another Ark that hasn't arrived.  Finally, the Jill solution: people will be having babies.  As viability increases, there will likely be incentives for people to have children, at least to a point but not so many that the Angarans have no room to grow themselves.

Even with everyone out of Cryo it will take generations to get a population at a respectable level through natural means.  

100,000 is barely a city on Earth and they expect to colonise a bunch of different planets. 

To compete with billions of Kett out there.

With ME level of technology and automatization this period will be relatively short. 100k of people would easily feed millions and still have free hands for other routines.

Well, if anyone takes their time that's Kett. How would you suggest to deal with them though?

Tried that.

The remnant fleets nearly got smashed by the Kett.

Ryder had to use the Scourge agaibst the Kett because they were destroying the Remnant ships.

The OP was half-joking, but I think cloning is a legitimately good way for the series to move forward to justify a significant/expanded presence for the Andromeda Initiative in the future. The game's never really cared for population statistics, but it would only help. It's not a matter of breeding population, but the industrial/scientific base to create industry enough to be a Big Deal far away, and the population base to be anything but a footnote.

When it comes down to it, the numbers the Arks carried is... not that much. All the humans in Andromeda are less than a major modern city, which itself can hardly claim/colonize entire planets. The Milkywayians might eventually settle the galaxy... but by the time they can, other species really already should have. The numbers just don't support it.

The Andromeda Initiative as-is is probably good enough for Helius. We're almost certainly outnumbered by the Angaara, but they've been dealing with the Kett, and it's obviously a good team effort all-around. We were decisive, mostly because the Kett Empire's expeditionary force didn't care about us, and that's alright.

But that won't be plausible in, say, the Kett's own home cluster. Or in the cluter right next to us- which instead of having tens of thousands of colonists to tap into, will probably only have a few hundred. Or tens. Etc.



So what I could see is... the Hidden Hand of the Benefactor, or Cerberus if they're one and the same, having smuggled in some cloning labs and fabricators aboard the Nexus and having plans to break them out in secret. Create a new population base- hide the clone facilities- and you can more or less ensure extinction doesn't reach Andromeda, even as the Benefactor expects the Reapers to hit the Milky Way.


Imagine if Andromeda 2 works like this. It's a few years later. Everyone in Andromeda is woken up, settled in. Colonies are started, there's plenty of Helius left to settle, but the fear/concern of the greater Kett empire. So we go abroad to deal with them before they come to us, or at least to explore the neighborhood a bit more.


So we go in Andromeda Initiative mk 2, to the next cluster. Maybe in one of the Arks, which serves as the colony ship to the next cluster. We make friends. We find enemies. We get in a lot of trouble... and then bam, at the right moment, Cavalry comes. Friendlies- with guns- save us.

And then we find they're human... which should be impossible, since we should be the first humans in the sector.

In begins the hunt/mystery chase, as the humans-who-shouldn't-be-there either can't or won't give us the answers we need, even as we need their numbers to help the initiative. Implications are... staggering. Unsettling. Dangerous, even- mass-cloning of a species threatens to shift the balance of power in the Initiative. Colonies of clones threaten the borders of would-be allies. Maybe the Kett are at risk of capturing a cloning facility, and all the exaltations they could ever want.

And so we hunt, investigate, and explore, and eventually discover the source of the clones... and have a Big Decision to make. Do we turn it off/destroy it, ending the flood of allies and human clones but giving us better/more stable ties with coalition partners and aliens afraid of being out-populated? Or do we keep it for our own advantage/use, even if it threatens our alliances and risks playing into someone else's plans?


I think that'd be good.

Mmmm, no. Try again with actual reasoning.